2021’s Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution — Part 1

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 21:25:43 +0000

Volkswagen ID4 charging at GreenWay charger road trip Europe CleanTechnicaWelcome to the 8th Annual Top 10 EV Countries List! By Assaf Oron Sigh. Nowadays there’s always chance for breaking bad news to overshadow any substantive in-depth story. The story below is mostly good news, so I hope it is well received right now. This is a long post, but hopefully engaging and encouraging. Feel […]

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15 European Countries Have 15%+ Plugin Vehicle Sales (New Car Sales)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:10:09 +0000

There are now 15 European countries that have 15% or more of new-car buyers buying plugin electric cars (full electric cars or plugin hybrids). There are 12 European countries that have 10% or more of new-car buyers buying full electric vehicles (BEVs). China also passed those milestones in 2021 (15% plugin vehicle share and 12% […]

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EU to Cut Gas Imports from Russia by ⅔ in 2022

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:30:40 +0000

For the past several years, the argument from some — most notably Germany — has been that if there is a greater interdependence between Russia and the rest of Europe, Russia would be a more friendly actor. Perhaps we can all just get along? Vladimir Putin had other plans. Aside from not stopping him from […]

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Sweden’s Government Approves Construction of Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository 

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:14:00 +0000

Sweden’s government in late January gave radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) the green light to proceed with a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at a site near Vattenfall’s 3.2-GW Forsmark nuclear power plant. The milestone, which wraps up a planning process that has taken more than 40 years, makes Sweden only the second country, after Finland, to take active steps on building a permanent SNF repository.

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Swedish Housing Developer Bonava To Make All Of Its New Parking Bays EV Ready

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:10:37 +0000

The Swedish housing developer Bonava announced it will make parking bays in its new Finnish development projects EV ready. The company is the first developer in Finland to do so, and is partnering with Parking Energy Ltd. to prepare the parking bays. The bays will have electricity, cables, and a Parking Energy Quick Connector. Jiri Räsänen, Parking Energy’s CEO, answered some questions about the work for CleanTechnica.

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Elon Musk’s Long-Standing Support of Basic Income (& Thus Support of Andrew Yang)

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:50:32 +0000

Elon Musk’s support of basic income long predates his support for Andrew Yang, whose signature Freedom Dividend is a variant of basic income

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POWER Digest [January 2019]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

EDF Inks Agreement for O&M Services at UAE Nuclear Plant. French nuclear power plant operator EDF will operate and maintain the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under a

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Innovative Microgrid Will Power Finnish Distribution Center

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

A distribution center in Finland is installing what is being called the country’s largest industrial microgrid, a system that will use 100% renewable energy. The system is being built by Schneider Electric

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Finnish Nuclear Plant Start-up Delayed Again

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 23:24:47 +0000

Another nuclear power project has been delayed, as the Fennovoima consortium and Russia’s state-run nuclear company Rosatom said the Hanhikivi 1 power plant’s projected start-up date has been pushed to 2028, four years behind the original schedule and eight years later than the proposed start when Finland’s government supported the project in 2010. The announcement […]

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